Comedy Quarterly The Devastator Vaporizes Sci-Fi

Comics and sci-fi engage warp-speed satire with the help of writers from The Daily Show, The Oblongs, Metalocalypse and more in the second quarterly volume of The Devastator.

Released Thursday, the old-school print brainchild of Los Angeles writers Geoffrey Golden and Amanda Meadows — a self-described “book of comics, satire and awesomeness” — looks to slay the sophomore slump at the expense of Tron, Star Wars, Soylent Green and other sci-fi standbys and oddities. (Yes, we’re looking at you, Existenz.)

“In The Devastator No. 2, you find out that the entire science-fiction genre is actually a giant computer program that we’re living inside, while aliens harvest our body energies to power their panini makers,” said Meadows in an e-mail chat with Wired.com. “How else can you explain Heinlein and Dick?”

Click through the gallery above for a glimpse into The Devastator‘s spoof-ray. Let us know in the comments section below which sci-fi franchises spoof themselves just fine. (Let’s hope we aren’t looking at you, Tron.)

“Tron: Legacy looks like a series of glorious screensavers!” said Meadows. “Disney has been marketing this movie for over two years, so at this point seeing it is just good manners. If we don’t, it’ll be awkward.”